For Thomas and aspiring young poet Brinnin, their only option is a temporary escape to get their act together (and get Thomas off the booze); a weeklong retreat at a remote East Coast boathouse, where the earnest ingenue and his fast-fading idol will swiftly measure themselves against one another and be forced to face up to their realities.

In turn, Rosales Herrera competently applies the familiar angel/monster dichotomy to propose that the female protagonists in each novel, Patria/Yocandra and Claudia/La Mora, not only characterize their respective creators (Valdes and Chaviano) by blurring the borders between literature and extra-literary narrative discourses but also obtain temporary escape in the power of the erotic.

When first conceived, the object of such forms of public entertainment was to make us laughC* and at times cryC* and almost always it was meant to provide us with a temporary escape into make-believe realities and lifestyles through the lens of fictitious characters.

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